While institutions are a key determinant of economic behavior and new institutions are often formed as a part of an economic policy, a systematic way to design these institutions and test their potential performance before they are created does not exist. I have attempted in this paper to create and test such a design for an environmental mitigation banking system using system dynamics modeling...

In China, environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) play an important supervisory role to address ecological issues together with government regulation and enterprise implementation. This study examines the effect of ENGO presence on corporate environmental responsibility (CER) performance, along with internal factors as covariate variables. With a sample of 677 enterprises, it opera...

The present research compared the in-group-focused emotions of pride, guilt, and anger as predictors of three environmental intentions. In two scenario studies we manipulated the in-group’s responsibility for environmental damage or protection. In-group responsibility for environmental damage increased participants’ guilt and anger, whereas in-group responsibility for environmental protection i...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop a conceptual model based on an integrative approach better understand voluntary pro-environmental behavior employees. Design/methodology/approach reviews theoretical approaches and uses perspective try in the workplace. Findings authors developed employees with four main variables: attitude, perceived behavioral control, personal norms corporate s...

conclusions behaviors are actually adopted and sustained by patients are so far from that recommended by health professionals. this gap could be reduced by identifying behavioral change challenges, rooted in the beliefs of the individual and the family. therefore, culturally-based interventions to enhance disease self-management should be considered. results three sources of behavioral change c...

Acknowledgements: I thank Donald Siegel for suggesting that I consider my research about environmental R&D in the context of the literature about corporate social responsibility. I thank the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College for the financial support of a Reiss Family Senior Faculty Research Grant that launched the research project described in Scott (200...

This paper surveys some of the main ethical issues pertaining to robotics that have been discussed in the literature. We start with the idea of responsibility ascription that arises when an autonomous system malfunctions or harms people. Next, we discuss various ethical issues emerging in two sets of robotic applications: service robots that peacefully interact with humans and lethal robots cre...

What is necessary for robots to coexist with human beings? In order to do so, we suppose, robots must be moral agents. To be a moral agent is to bear its own responsibility which others cannot take for it. We will argue that such an irreplaceability consists in its having an inner world — one which others cannot directly experience, just as pleasure and pain. And personality of a moral agent, w...

BACKGROUND Adolescence is a sensitive period of acquiring normal and abnormal habits for all oflife. The study investigates determinants of responsibility for health, spiritual health and interpersonal relations and predictive factors based on the theory of planned behavior in high school girl students in Tabriz. METHODS In this Cross-sectional study, 340 students were selected thorough multi...